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Xurl is a simple curl alternative, built using golang. The main purpose of Xurl is to fetch and send data to stdout to make it easy to chain/pipe it into other cli tools to do what you want.

Usage -

xurl [flags] [data] [address]

Simply provide the URL to fetch the data from that address.

Schemes

Xurl plans to support a variety of Uri schemes. The currently supported schemes are-

• Http/Https - http://google.com
• File - file://{path-to-file}
• Websockets - ws://localhost:3000/ws

Xurl determines the scheme by observing the prefix of the address, separated by the :// operator

Default Scheme

Http/Https is the default Uri scheme. You can also just use www., which will xurl will replace by http:// automatically.

Example

xurl www.google.com

Supported Methods

GET

xurl http://google.com

POST In order to send a post request, you would have to use the -data flag. This would be accompanied by the path of your data file, prefixed by @

xurl --data @path.json http://localhost:3000/post

Websocket

Example

xurl ws://localhost:3000/ws

This creates a websocket connection and opens up an interactive shell. You can use this shell to send further messages, each message being read as a single line input.

Warning

Redirection > currently does not work with websockets.

HeadersOnly flag

In case you only want to fetch the response headers, use the -headersOnly flag

xurl --headersOnly www.google.com

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Note

This project is created solely for learning purposes. Not recommended for professional use.